Market Analysis
Tommy Grisafi, Advance Trading, says it’s the combination of weather and production concerns globally and in the U.S. that have finally caught the grain market’s attention and will dictate how high prices go.
Grains rally on weather and technical buying. Will funds keep covering their short positions with the chart breakouts and what kind of rally could that produce? Tommy Grisafi, Advance Trading, has answers.
Brad Kooima, Kooima Kooima Varilek, says cattle are trading more H5N1 headlines and disregarding higher cash, hogs are following. Grains are adding weather premium, but he cautions weather rallies are fleeting.
Don Roose, U.S. Commodities, says grain markets are trading weather and have had some chart breakouts. That could keep funds buying but only if weather continues to be bullish.
Corn, soybean and soybean meal futures posted higher weekly closes, but it’s hard to predict how far the grain markets could rally, says Jerry Gulke. “Now it becomes more of an art than a science,” he adds.
Grains ended higher on Friday with chart breakouts on weather and crop concerns, plus fund short covering. Cattle mixed, hogs. lower.
Grain markets have been rallying this week on weather and crop concerns and it’s not just wheat. Eric Snodgrass, Senior Science Fellow, Nutrien Ag Solutions, talks about Northern and Southern Hemisphere weather.
Grains continue higher with weather concerns in the U.S. and SA, a lower dollar and funds are covering shorts with the stronger technical action says Darin Newsom with Barchart. Will the funds eventually buy grains?
John Payne, Advance Trading, says soybeans and soybean meal led the grain rally Thursday on short covering and adding weather premium with heavy rains and flooding in southern Brazil and parts of Argentina.
John Payne, Advance Trading says grains rally on fund short covering and weather, with a higher day in cattle and lower close in cotton....again.
Cattle rally after negative tests for H5N1 in ground beef and improving cash says Scott Varilek, Kooima Kooima Varilek. Grains are putting in weather premium, is a chart breakout in the works?
Corn and soybeans close higher Wednesday, with wheat and livestock lower. Ted Seifried, Zaner Ag Hedge, recaps the action plus talks about why the stock market rallied after interest rates were left unchanged.
AgDay Markets Now: Ted Seifried, Zaner Ag Hedge, says corn and soybeans saw a technical bounce Wednesday, with profit taking in wheat.
Chuck Shelby, Risk Management Commodities, says wheat is consolidating and pulling down corn. When will the grain markets become concerned about weather?
Kent Beadle, Paradigm Futures, says soybeans, bean oil and wheat tank on heavy deliveries and fast planting progress.
A lower day in the grains on heavy deliveries, fast planting and some end of month squaring. Kent Beadle, Paradigm Futures says cattle were also lower following the stock market and H5N1 headlines.
Grains lower on profit taking, heavy deliveries of BO and CH wheat, plus faster than expected planting pace. USDA’s ground beef testing for bird flu is weighing on cattle. Randy Martinson, Martinson Ag, has more.
Shawn Hackett, Hackett Financial Advisors says wheat finally saw profit taking on Monday and was due for a correction. Soybeans ended slightly higher, pushed by meal.
Winter wheat sees some profit taking Monday pulling down corn. While Shawn Hackett, Hackett Financial Advisors says soybeans follow meal higher. Profit taking in cattle. And what’s driving the rally in metals?
Cattle start higher on strong cash before end of month profit taking sets in. Corn and wheat also consolidate with an eye on weather while soybeans move higher. Brad Kooima, Kooima Kooima Varilek has details.
Darren Frye, Water Street Solutions, says the wheat rally came on weather and technical buying, which also helped corn and soybeans post a higher week. He’s not sure it can continue without a bigger weather issue.
Grains end mixed Friday but higher for the week led by wheat. Cattle make new highs for the move helped by stronger cash. Can the markets continue to move higher? Darren Frye, Water Street Solutions, has the answers.
Gulke Group president Jerry Gulke explains why he made the last-minute decision to switch 200 acres of corn to soybeans.
Wheat continues to rally while row crops ease, all watching weather says Allison Thompson of The Money Farm. Cattle build on Thursday’s reversal on better cash news.
AgDay Markets Now: Alan Brugler Says Wheat Pulls Corn Higher but It Might Have its Own Bullish Story
Alan Brugler, Brugler Marketing says wheat, corn and cattle close higher Thursday.
Grain and livestock close mixed Thursday. Alan Brugler, Brugler Marketing says wheat rallied for a 6th day pulling along corn and may still have some upside. Cattle recover with the help of better cash news.
Cattle futures plunge again on HPAI news but Scott Varilek, Kooima Kooima Varilek says cash is holding together. Hogs fall with cattle. Corn follows wheat but may not take out the top of the trading range.
Wheat ends higher for a fifth day but Darin Newsom with Barchart thinks the rally has just about run its course and that is true for corn and soybeans as well. And HPAI headlines sink cattle...again.
Grains end mixed with wheat higher for the fifth consecutive day. However, corn and soybeans don’t follow. Darin Newsom, Barchart, discusses if the fund short covering rally is about done?
Grain and livestock futures trade both sides of steady early Wednesday after testing the top side of trading ranges. Are grains ready to take a breather? Vince Boddicker, Farmers Trading Company, has details.